Show RUSS ROSS EXILES flOCK TO PROTECTION OF RUMANIA Refugees From Odessa and Vicinity a at Border Repatriation Repatriation Re Re- Is Is' Is Slow Y BUCHAREST May s of refugees ref ref ref- ug s Odessa districts surround surrounding sur sur- round rounding Ing that c city ty continue con tin uc to to- flock flock- to the eager r to cross oss' cross cross' over over into Rumanian te territory and restrained only ulIly b by th the ian flun-ian guard troops strung In a a. thick line along the Bess ra lall bank of I the river MaJor JMaJor laj r II H. H H. H Snively ot of Tot tile the American I TIed ed Cross mission to who was us as t dispatched w Vil saw at the request of 01 the Polish Red C Cross oss has haa taken taKe chaise chaH e of th the Polish refuge movement AcKer- AcKer man and Bender are the vo t t fr frontier points where Cr time the Pr prES Pressure Ure of fugitives the has imas been most moat felt felt- With the s clamoring e for admission into flu Ru- n mania mallia the M Poles Pes have hav ren rendered extremely extreme- extreme ly v difficult l the tile J CV Problem of feeding and clothing h time 1 newcomers e During I time the e past few weeks I the h American n R Red fled Cross Crosa o c corn com I mission mission- to Ilum Rumania anla his has liis- exerted effort t 4 t J to facilitate swift oJ ot the Poles to their native e country RE REMEDIAL MEASURES I I of the Polish refugees have r been allowed allowe by the Rumanian l I ties to establish themselves temporarily at at JAssy Other refugee camps camps have hwe t been Improvised eci at Rn and bulin- bulin Major aj l- l lEngle 56 H acting American Ameri can TIed lied n Cross commissioner t to td hi has rushed clothing food and mc medicines to Galatz the port to which during the I last few weeks s thousands of Polish ard and Russian refugees have coming coming- in ill sundry vessels in ill batches ranging from trout 1 to OO at a. a Ju a. time lime The Time flight of tf the Odessa refugees be beat began be- be I gary gan at a n moment when the time Rumanian I railway s system nan had almost completely I Jn in most mOat cases the lice arriving refugees ref 1 were hed held for da days das s 's in quarantine at I then sent to and later r tO o I Galatz Where repatriation trains usually a awaited alted them Only those for whom trans lIans was abjured were permitted to toland toland toland land landon on Rumanian poll Besides handling the refugee situation on the nd at the time inland vamps amps time the American Red Cross commission In Bucharest placed Its hospital supplies clothing and medicines warehoused at at the disposal of Lieutenant Colonel Ernest B. B Bicknell who ha has charge of ot the time refugee problem m in En southeastern south South- e eastern stern Europe with headquarters in Constantinople I CHILD WELFARE WORK Pressing as th the refugee relief reli work has proved to be none of the other activities ac ae ac- ac undertaken n in Rumania by 11 the commission were tor for one moment allowed to suffer r in consequence The Time experiment In child welfare work the object ct of which is to train Rumanian girls in American can methods of caring eaTing for the infant population tion lion of the war torn country promises t to result In permanent good a according to to Dr A. A. A F. F Phillips of ot the commission who has recently been placed in charge har e of ot the time timework work by bj the time acting commissioner Miss Isabel Martin of Manu sa Cob Colo and Miss Elizabeth Gertrude Mitchell of New York Tork City b both th of whom are American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean nurses hope soon to have a large barge class of native girls ready to start work on their own account Efforts to establish establish lish child welfare centers have been un under Jm der dep derway way In a number of Rumanian to toWns I ns SCHOOLS FOR NURSES At some of ot the the private private private- hospitals schools for nurses' nurses aids opened under the guidance of the American Red fled RedCross Cross nurses Among the hospitals which have already made a II success of the tIe idea is that maintained by Princess I The child welfare stations in various parts of the country and the care card rei reports re- re j i ports s received iV from them by the commission commis commis- f ef sion aton show a tendency t to growth 0 In spite of the epidemics which still stil I ra rage e in the Infant hospital a decided falling failing off in mortality has been noted in I Rumania I |